raskin: rudy giuliani was certainly being a yemen. the people any other president would have reride on, the campaigning more, the attorney general of the united states, the flawrs his company, were all telling him the same thing. it was over. he had lost the election. reporter: this was a very different presentation than you did nurs night. what were you trying to make sure people picked up today watching? mr.raskin: it's important for everyone see not only was the big lie a big lie but donald trump must have known it was a big lie unless as william barr put it he was detached from reality but we're going to assume that the president of the united states was connected to reality and in that case, he has to listen to the attorney general of the united states, all of the white house lawyers, the campaign lawyer, the campaign advisers, they were all tilling him the same thing. it was over. he'd lost the election. he goes out and says the opposite. that he'd won the election. reporter: what about rudy giuliani? mr. raskin: the facts came

. >> a member of the january 6 committee, maryland representative jamie raskin -- jamie raskin gives a look into the investigation about the attack on the capital and talks about evidence of premeditated activity. this is hosted by lee caldwell. it is 30 minutes. host: hello. welcome to washington journal live. thank you so much for joining us. we are talking with the congressman because today is the first week of the january 6 committee hearing. representative jamie raskin is the committee member. we do take questions. tweet us and we will try to ask your questions. this week is the first hearing of a series of hearings at the january 6 committee is holding. what can we expect on thursday during prime time at 8:00? rep. raskin: you will see an introduction of the findings laid out over the course of the month of june. we are going to hear the story of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power. this is an extraordinary and unprecedented event in our history. you are going to have to go back to the civil war to understand anything like i

raskin: again, i do not want to enter any specifics. we have wanted to make sure that we get as much information as possible from as many material witnesses as possible. we have to figure out exactly what happened. vice president pence was the object of this political onslaught on january 6. we need to fill in the details as much as possible about what happened there. as i understand it, the purpose was to try to get pens to exercise, totally unprecedented -- by donald trump. they wanted him to single-handedly nullify the votes of tens of millions of people. clinched it for donald trump in the election or when it would have done -- if that were the case, it would have kicked the entire process into the house of representatives. why they want the house under speaker pelosi and democrats deciding who will be president, they understood perfectly that under the 12th amendment we would be voting not on the basis of one member, one vote, but in the basis of what state delegation -- one state, pennsylvania split down the middle would allow 27

raskin: again, i do not want to enter any specifics. we have wanted to make sure that we get as much information as possible from as many material witnesses as possible. we have to figure out exactly what happened. vice president pence was the object of this political onslaught on january 6. we need to fill in the details as much as possible about what happened there. as i understand it, the purpose was to try to get pens to exercise, totally unprecedented -- by donald trump. they wanted him to single-handedly nullify the votes of tens of millions of people. clinched it for donald trump in the election or when it would have done -- if that were the case, it would have kicked the entire process into the house of representatives. why they want the house under speaker pelosi and democrats deciding who will be president, they understood perfectly that under the 12th amendment we would be voting not on the basis of one member, one vote, but in the basis of what state delegation -- one state, pennsylvania split down the middle would allow 27

raskin. rep. raskin: thank you very much. which one of the talked about the conflict or tension between speed and accuracy? mr. horowitz, you did. i get that. i remember clearly when we were doing the eidl program and ppp, our constituents were desperate to get the money, legitimately desperate. then, as you suggest, we have criminals waiting in the wings to rip off the program. when we did this, and we created under the trump administration, what controls and regulations were put into place to make sure the transnational criminals and other thieves weren't ripping off the taxpayers? mr. horowitz: the problem at the outset was that the ppp program, about 400 billion dollars went out in two weeks out of an $800 billion program. we are relying on self certification. we had 57,000 ppp loans approved for entities, individuals that were under the treasury departments. no one checked. you need to understand the need for speed. no one is suggesting in the ig oversight community that you wait for weeks or months. their birth several

raskin, for five minutes. mr. raskin: mr. chairman, thank you. the january 6 committee has determined that donald trump has knowingly and deliberately lied. it's obvious from all of the evidence about who won the presidential election. so that just seems irrefutable to me. he continues to lie who won the presidential election. so mr. jordan's line of questioning makes me wonder when he was out hawking fake medical cures like high docks color colin or injecting yourself with bleach, was this a lie or expression of hope? dr. birx: i don't know. i only -- my only speculation is that there were people, including physicians, telling the president that these items would work. mr. raskin: you -- dr. birx: outside the white house. mr. raskin: people who would write to him or call him up. what about when he would say it would disappear by easter, was that based on any advice you were giving him or any scientists inside the white house or the c.d.c.? dr. birx: no. that first estimate of 100,000 to 240,000 americans lost, that was only that first surge. we

>> i'll speak to a member of the committee, jamie raskin but first out to manu raju on capitol hill. >> reporter: trump leaning on top justice officials to claim the election was corrupt, even though he was told time and time again they had no merit, there was a push to install a trump loyalist on top of the justice department even causing a threat for those top justice official to see consider resigning en mass out of protest, ultimately, that is did not happen. but what did apparently happen was some republican members of congress asking for pardons over their role on january 6th. >> just told me it's your job to seize machines and you're not doing your job. >> reporter: top justice officials testifying about the lengths donald trump went to use the power of the federal government to pursue the conspiracy that the election was stolen, despite being told repeatedly, there was nowhere to his claims, trump demanding they declare the election corrupt and leave the rest to him and members of congress. >> were any of the allegations he brought up found credible? did you find any of them

congressman raskin, thank you so much for being with us. i want to focus on the new revelations from "the new york times" starting with this email they report on between a pro trump lawyer and john eastman, who, of course, was working for donald trump and you focused on quite a bit. he writes, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6th will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th. what are the implications of this in your mind that he's talking about you could argue this strategic value of violence weeks before it happens? >> well, i've always believed that the street violence by hohool gan hooligans was a form of coercive leverage over the vice president. i had not in all of my work on this going back to the impeachment trial understood that some people were actually thinking of it as a tactical maneuver to force the supreme court into action. and, of course, that email doesn't prove that this is the case, but it does suggest that there were at least some people maneuveri

raskin. rep. raskin: thank you very much. which one of the talked about the conflict or tension between speed and accuracy? mr. horowitz, you did. i get that. i remember clearly when we were doing the eidl program and ppp, our constituents were desperate to get the money, legitimately desperate. then, as you suggest, we have criminals waiting in the wings to rip off the program. when we did this, and we created under the trump administration, what controls and regulations were put into place to make sure the transnational criminals and other thieves weren't ripping off the taxpayers? mr. horowitz: the problem at the outset was that the ppp program, about 400 billion dollars went out in two weeks out of an $800 billion program. we are relying on self certification. we had 57,000 ppp loans approved for entities, individuals that were under the treasury departments. no one checked. you need to understand the need for speed. no one is suggesting in the ig oversight community that you wait for weeks or months. their birth several

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that's the jamie raskin argument.emocrats on the committee who are sympathetic to the principle of abolishing the electoral college. they just don't think it's realistic or likely or possible in this context, so they're not pushing for it in the way that he is. >> i want to ask you about something else that axios is reporting just now, which is that james goldstone, the former president of abc news, but i think for the purposes of this, the fact that he's the former show runner for "good morning america" and "nightline," he has joined the committee as an unannounced adviser ahead of this prime time hearing, which obviously is going to rely on some good production techniques. what is that telling you? what do you know about this? >> well, it tells you that they want to put on a heck of a show on thursday night. and i know from talking to a number of members of the january 6th committee that they want to produce a piece of content that's compelling enough that it won't just speak to the people who are already exercised

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congressman raskin, good to have you on.n yesterday, i was wrestling with, like, what is the genre of this thing? what does this look like? what does it sound like? what is it? and so i always impressed, honestly, at a craft level by why you presented last night. how did the committee think about it? what did they think the hearings are? what are you trying to do in them? >> well, one thing we are trying to do is to change peoples concept and understanding of what a hearing is. because for the last several years, based on trump's gop, a hearing has just been members coming in and then engaging in polemical combat and fighting each other. and engaging in ad hominem insults -- so, we have a real bipartisan committee, in a sense that we are all together. we have a common purpose. we are trying to draw on everybody's best talents. we are brainstorming together. and we are trying to make progress. that means we don't have to divide the time up in a way that it's a debating to society. but we divide the time up in such a way that

congressman raskin, thank you for being back on the show.tart with some of the news that has developed this afternoon, about transcripts now that will be shared with the justice department. can you hear me okay? >> yeah. >> the justice department had to ask twice for this committee to share those transcripts. can you give us some insight into the decision to cooperate with the doj, as they move forward with their own prosecution? >> you know, all of that is really within the control of the chairman, bennie thompson, but it's been very much in the interest of everybody in the committee that the information we gather go public generally, because we're just the representatives of the people and so, you know, i don't know exactly what the internal dynamics were of that particular discussion. >> let me just ask a couple of procedural questions here before i want to get into some of the substance of the hearing. we're looking ahead to the next hearings, are all of your witnesses lined up for the remaining hearings? >> it's still a moving target. >

maryland congressman jamie raskin. he was also the lead impeachment manager at trump's second impeachment trial. he has been busy over the last two years thank you so much for joining us tonight, i know it has been a busy one. but it is done. i'm quite sure your democratic colleagues have called you, said it was a great night. but what i really want to know -- have any republicans called you tonight? >> i do not appear to have any texts or emails from republican colleagues, other than liz and adam, i think. >> i want you to think back in time. when you decided to become a lawmaker, did you ever think that there would be a day that there would be a violent attack by americans on our capitol and the president of the united states would do absolutely nothing to stop it? because that's what you laid out for us tonight. >> the whole thing is surreal, if you can rewind to the days before trump was elected in 2016. because none of us ever expected a violent assault on congress in order to seize the presidency and steal a pres

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congressman raskin, thank you for making time to join us tonight.e it. >> thank you, chris. my pleasure. >> let me start with the polling context from this. i mean, look, again -- we have talked about this. i worked in a business that work is the new cycle business, the attention business. it's hard be keep people focused on things. lots happens in our world. but if you look at polling from quinnipiac, back in august 2021 you say, like, should it never be forgotten, january 6th? or is it time to move on? it was sort of a forced choice. what you see is we are getting closer to 50 50 on, should never be forgotten versus, it's time to move on. how does that inform what your committee is doing with these public hearings? >> well, people have come to understand that this is an ongoing struggle that we are in. i think it was congressman moe brooks who said not long ago that former president trump is still trying to gift geo gop politics to rescind the election. and there is an ongoing assault on voting rights. and the integrity of our elections taking pla

joining us now, committee member and maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin. congressman, a president soliciting a quarter billion from citizens for a so-called defense fund that apparently didn't exist, it sounds shady, morally bankrupt. it illegal, however? >> well, let's start with this, anderson. when it's a rule of political fundraising that when the election is over, the winner can continue to raise money and will usually raise a lot of it, but the loser finds everything dry up immediately. it's just like a desert out there. but donald trump figured out a way to keep the spigots of money flowing, even after he lost the election. and that was by claiming he had won the election and it was being stolen from him. so they mobilized hundreds of millions of dollars, as you've discussed in that report quoting amanda wick, one of our investigators. well, morally, ethically, politically, it's obviously deeply problematic. one would have to go back and see exactly what the campaign disclaimers say as people wrote checks to the campaign and, you know, offered their

rachel, we have jamie raskin joining us tonight, as our first guest tonight. a member of the january 6th committee. i want to present to him a question the senator sheldon whitehouse has, who is going to be joining us later in the hour. sheldon whitehouse wants to know, where did that john eastman little ridley come from? the john eastman right it? did someone rite aid for him? or did the person who gave it to john eastman gave it -- where did it begin? it's a great question. and it's one that i've overlooked until senator whitehouse focused on it. so, we will try to get some headway on. that >> yeah, the one member of the investigation you would like to ask about that is the one who is a distinguished constitutional law professor. and that's the one you have got. >> we are lucky. >> i had better go. >> thank you, rachel. >> by, lawrence. >> now it looks like clarence thomas's wife is going to need a great effing criminal defense lawyer. because she is now implicated in exactly the same legal jeopardy -- criminal legal jeopardy -- that provoked exactly that ad

they do not have a prosecutorial role, and representative raskin was clear with me on that today.e department of justice has asked the january 6th select committee for transcripts and some documents from their investigation, but raskin wouldn't confirm if they have handed those over yet and what sort of cooperation and work they have been doing with the justice department. and they've been very vague on if there's going to be enough in their own investigation for this justice department to take the reins from there to indict. maybe it's indict the former president or the people around him for their role leading up to january 6th. and i think that's going to be a question for a lot of people throughout this month of hearings, especially for us as we're covering it, katie. >> leann caldwell, thank you so much for coming on and being with us today. it's like old days, like you never left. >> i know. feels good. >> here's what doesn't feel good. gas prices. they spiked over the weekend. today a gallon costs an average of the 4.87. in los angeles where i was over the weekend i saw goes

>> exactly what jamie raskin said. that concept of consciousness of guilt is something used in courtrooms again around the country every day. sometimes if the circumstances are right and someone flees, that's consciousness of guilt. if someone lies about their whereabouts when there's no reason to lie about your whereabouts, that could be consciousness of guilt. here, if you're seeking the ultimate protection pre pre-emptively with respect to something you and your colleagues have said was merely tourists going to a historic site, that tells you something about their state of mind. it's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but added it to list of other evidence, it shows you if it's true that these members of congress were really concerned about their own behave. and thought they might be prosecuted. i think it's also interesting here that some of this stuff that liz cheney and others said, the chairman said last night, they brought it to us and they showed us video and evidence. some of it they just previewed. it's a

jamie raskin, a member of the select committee was on meet the press.says when mike pence refused to be evacuated by the secret service, that implied he did not trust who was in charge. >> i think this was a moment of courage, displayed by vice president pence. he was not leaving the capital. the colloquial phrase, who is behind the wheel, could mean a lot of different things. it could mean, you know, who ultimately is commanding the secret service. >> raskin would not comment more directly about the concerns. representative adam ship said it is possible thatfive will be subpoenaed to testify. hearings continue tuesday. >>> 200,000 juvenile salmon are being released into the bay. the salmon will be sent downstream in richmond. it is part of the department's fish and wildlife plan to move nearly 1 million salmon raised in a hatchery into the san francisco and san pablo bays. low flows and elevated water temperatures make it difficult for young salmon to survive. >>> traffic news, back to normal on highway 50 near echo summit. crews have been repaving tha

congressman jamie raskin is a member of the select committee.ailed testimony this week with a trump department of justice official saying trump directly told the doj to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. pretty clear what direction you're going here. >> well, we saw a series of successive shakedowns of the election officials, of secretaries of state like brad raffensperger in georgia, a state legislative officials and we saw lot of heroes, people who hung tough like shaye moss and weren't willing to be detered from doing their public duties. and from the department of justice, those were trump's own appointees telling him they could not do what he was asking them to do. they can't claim there was fraud and corruption in the election when there wasn't. all of it is zeroing in on vice president mike pence to get him to betray his constitutional oath to step outside of his role and then to unilaterally reject electoraege vos,o dona tmp "frie e role of jeffrey clark, forme official, in trying t

and this appears to be the theory that congressman raskin has endorsed. >> the secret service agents, who presumably are reporting to trump's secret service agents, they were trying to spirit him off of the campus. and he said, i am not getting in that car until we count the electoral college votes. he knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do. this was not a coup directed at the president. it was a coup directed at by the president against vice president. and against the congress. >> and just today, we get a new piece of evidence. and that must have been weighing pretty heavily on pence this morning. right? as maggie haberman reports in the new york times, on january 5th, one before all this goes down, marc short, the chief of staff, called the league secret service agent to the west wing office. come here, i have to talk to you. the chief of staff had a message for the agent. the president, trump, who is going to turn publicly against the vice president. and there could be a security risk to pence because of it. just take a second to digest this. we hav

that according to congressman raskin, will blow the roof off the house. see the same things, and i think it's a big task, sometimes there is the old mark twain quote, i would've written a shorter letter but i ran out of time. the editing process, being really judicious. and with a show us is what's really important part of their task for tomorrow. >> harry, quickly on this front, which is the interviewing style of the numbers of congress. talk to me about how they go about questioning the witnesses in all of this? there is a chance that we could, and reportedly hear from ivanka trump, and jared kushner. how do they prosecute those interviews so to speak? >> first, do no harm. so i think it's likely that we will hear from trump and kushner by video. cause they won't want to take the chance of a wrestling match that they lose. cassidy hutchinson, michael go dean, secret service that you were just talking about aim in, those will be different. but they will be very carefully choreographed to be crisp, four or five questions, maybe a videotape, move on. keep

i will take adam schiff and jamie raskin and nancy pelosi and all of those clowns and kangaroos.senior staff member in there -- >> and do what in. >> put them with subpoenas. we'll start with the impeachment of biden. ukraine, the border, all manner of things he is guilty of and experience his senior staff. i don't think that's good for the public. jefferson, adams, they all understood it. i don't think that the destruction of executive privilege and testimonial immunity that stopped trump from running for office in 2024 is a good democrat bet, and you shouldn't either. you should stand up and admit -- >> you but you admit if you end up back in power -- i want to get this on record. you admit if you get back in power, you'll use the doj to subpoena democrats you don't like? >> the doj, it's basically -- i will push as hard as i can to use the same b.s. the democrats are using now to try to put me in prison for standing up for principle. if they want to play that game, we'll play it right back. they'll hit us, we hit them back harder. that's not what i want, ari. let me be clear.

congressman raskin says that amounts to witness tampering, which, if proven, could lead to a charge ofstruction of justice. norah. >> o'donnell: i think we'll hear more about that. scott macfarlane, thank you. former r&b superstar and convicted sex predator r. kelly is likely to spend much of the rest of his life in prison after a judge handing down a 30-year prison sentence today. as cbs' jericka duncan reports, it was an emotional day at the courthouse in brooklyn. >> reporter: r. kelly showed no emotion after federal judge ann donnelly effectively put the 55-year-old behind bars until he's 85. >> r. kelly is a predator. and as a result of our prosecution, he'll serve a long jail sentence. >> reporter: kelly opted not to address the court after seven victims detailed how he ruined their lives. seated at the defense table, he never made eye contact with any of them. the grammy award-winning artist was convicted last year for leading an illegal enterprise to recruit ysanor sex, but in handg down her sentence, the judge said this case was not about sex. rather than, it was about violenc

that according to congressman raskin, will blow the roof off the house. we can't just see the same things, and i think it's a big task, sometimes there is the old mark twain quote, i would've written a shorter letter but i ran out of time. the editing process, being really judicious. and with a show us is what's really important part of their task for tomorrow. >> harry, quickly on this front, which is the interviewing style of the numbers of congress. talk to me about how they go about questioning the witnesses in all of this? there is a chance that we could, and reportedly hear from ivanka trump, and jared kushner. how do they prosecute those interviews so to speak? >> first, do no harm. so i think it's likely that we will hear from trump and kushner by video. cause they won't want to take the chance of a wrestling match that they lose. cassidy hutchinson, michael go dean, secret service that you were just talking about aim in, those will be different. but they will be very carefully choreographed to be crisp, four or five questions, maybe a videotape,

thanks so much for joining us, we have such a great interview today with representative jamie raskin of maryland. of course, we are talking to this congressman because today is the first week of the january 6th -- he is a member on that committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me, leigh ann, it's a pleasure to be with you guys. >> first, before we get started, i want to remind the audience that we do take questions. if you have questions, tweeted us at post live and we will try to ask the congressman your questions. congressman, as i just mentioned, this week is the first hearing of a series of hearings that the january six committee is holding. just a big picture, what can we expect on thursday during prime time at 8:00? >> well, i think you will see a comprehensive introduction and overview of the findings that will be laid out over the course of the month of june. we're gonna tell the story of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power. so this is an extraordinary and unprecedented event

>> thank you, chairman raskin. essentially the contract wasn't renewed. there was a settlement agreement between the district and myself and so i am prevented from discussing events pertaining to what happened with the district. but what happened, what initiated against me was much larger than that. it was a group of people, small group of people that were not parents of my students, that were not something, a larger number than not commuting members that raised concerns that i sent out a letter in the wake of george floyd's murder. they were raised concerns we create a a diversity advisory committee. they raised concerns i would even mention the word systemic racism. because as a gentleman alleged on promoting critical race three said that the judge was according to conspirator promoted the conspiracy of critical race theory because of my views and what i had to say in that letter. >> ic. well, i'll be interested to follow what happens with your case as one final question doctrine over to you. ms. nossel, we have talked about the dangers of this great wh

we did a reveal, it was revealed during these hearings that jamie raskin has another motive in all ofe wants to get rid of that outdated relic called the u.s. constitution, that calls for electors to end up picking the president. that's interesting to me because that would mean that liz cheney's father never would have been elected vice president. the electoral college -- >> that's right -- yeah, he wants to eliminate the electoral college, which is about as fundamental to our system of government as it comes. there is no way around this. look, the u.s. constitution has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. for reasons that escape, styled, and dismay me, the modern democratic party wants to throw it under the bus, throw it under the bus with statements like that he is amazing. they want to throw it under the bus by denigrating the supreme court of the united states and by packing the court so they can turn it into a political football. and sean, the thing is, without the supreme court being an independent arbiter of what the law is, there is n

congressman raskin says that amounts to witness tampering, which, if proven, could lead to a charge of obstruction of justice. norah. >> o'donnell: i think we'll hear more about that. scott macfarlane, thank you. former r&b superstar and convicted sex predator r. kelly is likely to spend much of the rest of his life in prison after a judge handing down a 30-year prison sentence today. as cbs' jericka duncan reports, it was an emotional day at the courthouse in brooklyn. >> reporter: r. kelly showed no emotion after federal judge ann donnelly effectively put the 55-year-old behind bars until he's 85. >> r. kelly is a predator. and as a result of our prosecution, he'll serve a long jail sentence. >> reporter: kelly opted not to address the court after seven victims detailed how he ruined their lives. seated at the defense table, he never made eye contact with any of them. the grammy award-winning artist was convicted last year for leading an illegal enterprise to recruit women, underaged girls and boys for sex, but in handing down her sentence, the judge said this case was not about sex.

democrat jamie raskin says the panel has evidence of planning and premeditated behavior. he adds hearings are going to explain a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power. raskin said trump in the white house or at committee's first public the - hearing is set for thursday evening. and the department of homeland security says a looming supreme court decision on abortion an increase of migrants at the u.s. mexico border and the midterm elections. our potential triggers for extremist violence over the next 6 months. the agency national terrorism advisory system bulletin says the u.s. is in a quote, heightened threat environment already. it's the latest attempt by dhs to draw attention to the threat posed by domestic violent extremism. that's a shift from alerts about international terrorism that were a hallmark of dhs following the creation after the 9.11 attacks. well, the son of one of the victims of the buffalo shooting spoke out yesterday in congress. garnell whitfield, junior's mother, 86 year-old ruth whitfield was killed when a gunman o

committee member jamie raskin joins me on that. and then senator chris murphy, on a big step forward for gun safety. >> this is the most significant anti gun violence bill that congress has voted on in 30 years. >> all in starts now. >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. the story of the january six committee hearing so far has been, well, a lot of things. but a story about human beings facing high stakes, ethical task. very high stakes test. and how they respond to being squeezed, and pressured by the most powerful man on earth. we saw that on stark display yesterday. we saw her testimony from three republicans who hold key positions of power in their home state. those three men, all conservatives, all -- voted for donald trump, resisted pressure from the ex president and his allies to help overturn the 2020 election. some of the most compelling testimony came from a man named rusty bowers who is the sitting arizona speaker of the house. arizona, of course one of the few states that decided the election going for joe bi

, summon the mob, to create the event, and to stage the whole arrangement for the march. >> jamie raskin, thank you very much for leading off our discussion tonight. >> you got it. >> thank you. joining us now is edward casper, one of the lawyers representing h capitol police officers who have filed a civil lawsuit against donald trump for the attack on the capital. thank you very much for joining us tonight. it seemed to me as i was watching the hearing yesterday that this was the most important discovery session that you have had so far. you now have evidence that the president knew that the mob he was encouraging to go to the capitol was equipped with weapons, weapons to go into battle with capitol police officers. what did you learn from the hearing tomorrow that you think affects your case, the hearing yesterday? >> that is right, lawrence. with the hearing did yesterday was bring into sharp focus would a lot of the public evidence already was suggesting. but the hearing yesterday made that concrete. there can be no doubt now that the president intended to unleash a violent mob on t

you. >> good morning and thank you, chairman raskin, ranking member mace. i'm a mom of four beautiful and intelligent kids who my world revolves around. my kids or six, eight, 12 of 14 and a two was come one girl and one gender non-binary child. i'm a fierce advocate for my children also have only ever entered public school and this addition i hold sacred. when i saw the bills going through tallahassee early this year i felt the need to travel up the width of the concerned parents, students and advocates to share my concerns about house bill 1557, 1467, and seven. these new laws whitewash history, and books and more importantly erase the announcement of students, parents and school staff that belong to the lgbtqia+ community. hb 1557 also known as don't say gay as written forbids the instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity and grades k through three and only where age-appropriate thereafter. the bill sponsors -- what was meant by sexual orientation, gender identity, classroom instruction or age-appropriate but we and that includes a school pol

i'll tell you jamie raskin selectively video. if anyone is persisting in telling a big lie it's members of the j.6 committee and they have to bring in a producer. that's why they are not going to let you hear -- that's why they deleted the tweet from their star witness from tonight. and what did he say back then? he said the proud boys were organizing together? how many police were there on the steps of the capitol? i count one. this is a deliberate act. he wasn't talking about the people who came in. he said someone in authority left the door open and the mob walked in. that's their witness tonight. they deleted that text. this is an illegitimate committee and eight legitimacy on display meant to that's what happens informer soviet union and venezuela when tyrants and authoritarians have a little bit power. i yield back. mr. perry: i thank the gentleman from from arizona. i yield to the gentleman from texas. senator nelson: -- >> madam speaker, listen to these words. sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an